Arizona students net $69,000 in awards at international science event

May 17, 2006

By Flinn Foundation

[Source: Arizona Republic] — Arizona students are bringing home more than $69,000 in scholarships and prizes from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2006, presented by Agilent Technologies. The fair is the world’s largest exhibition of the world’s young scientists and inventors in Grades 9-12. A pool of 1,482 competitors entered from 47 countries, regions and territories. The finalists, who competed in Indianapolis last week, began as part of a worldwide field of several million in the past year.

Andrew David Gamalski, 17, Hamilton High School in Chandler and Vinayak Muralidhar, 16, from Corona del Sol High School in Tempe. Project: A New Algorithm To Minimize Factory Inefficiency Through Penalty Reduction. Award of $500, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Also Second-Place Grand Award, Team Projects, $1,500.

Natasha Hasbah Gail, 17, from Rough Rock Community School in Chinle. Project: Identification of Conditions that Affect the Resolution of the Global Positioning System. Fourth-place award $500, Coast Guard. Also first-place earth science award from OSU, tuition scholarship of $5,000/year for four years.